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Dahlia Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1982

Surface
  
Turf

Location
  
Hollywood Park Racetrack Inglewood, California, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
Hollywood Park official website

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

The Dahlia Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses run annually at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. The Dahlia is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the turf. A Grade II event since 2006, it is run in mid December and offers a purse of $150,000.

The race was run in two divisions in 1982, 1983, 1987, 1989, and 1990. It is named in honor of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductee, the great racing mare Dahlia. Born in 1970, died in 2001 at age of 31, Dahlia won the big races in France, in England, in the United States, and in Canada.

Due to problems with the turf course, in 2004 the race was run on dirt and as such for that event was downgraded to a G-III event.

The race was not run in 2009 and 2010. As a result, the American Graded Stakes Committee announced that the race was not eligible for grading in 2011. If a race is not run for two consecutive years, it is not eligible for grading.

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:40.40 - Stylish Star (1989)
  • 1:40.40 - Saros Brig (1989)
  • Most wins:

  • No horse has won this race more than once.
  • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 7 - Robert J. Frankel
  • References

    Dahlia Handicap Wikipedia